PARENTS say the darndest things

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I just had a dad say to me after I informed him that his kid has missed 18 days of school so far:

"Well, he is so far ahead of all the other kids in his class, what's the big deal"? ?

Meanwhile this kid is a total space cadet, definitely has issues with processing...

What fun things have parents said to you lately?

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On 2/13/2019 at 11:35 AM, Keeperofthebandaids said:

ADD medicine capsule found in Kinder's pocket. Called mom. "Oh, I was sending that home with him for Grandma to give it to him after school." The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!

OMG! Most likely a schedule 2 controlled substance in a 5 year old's pocket? The STUPID, it BURNS! I got uptight when a seventh grader brought me a properly labeled bottle of sch2 meds...(pre-existing order/resupply) I wish we had a "running back and forth, hair on fire emoji"

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On 4/5/2019 at 11:38 AM, tining said:

Get updated phone numbers!

Had a mother and grandfather listed on contacts. Mom's number turned off, GFs was not working, email sent to mom and GF. No response all day. Got a strongly worded note the next day how I was supposed to call numbers we had no access to.:banghead:

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On 4/5/2019 at 12:07 PM, WineRN said:

I got lots of love for the crunchy moms out there, but sometimes the ones on the all or nothing end of the spectrum hurt me.

Parent: I just can't bear the idea of giving my child something from big pharma. They just don't do enough testing on those things

Proceeds to talk to me about their EOs, Special diets and sleep wake schedules that have NEVER been tested.

A Facebook rant about "Big Pharma"

https://www.scarymommy.com/nurse-moms-epic-big-pharma-rant-goes-viral/

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"He's been regressing a lot. He's fully potty-trained."

Said by the mom when I asked her to come pick up her diarrhea-stricken child. I had to explain that pooping water doesn't usually happen unless you're prepping for your colonoscopy and that she'd need to take him home.

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I had a dad rip me a new one on Friday for calling on a suspected wrist fracture. He made a big show in my office of doing his assessment and announcing there was no fracture as he is an EMT. He had his kid in tears by the time they left.

Skip to today, I get an e-mail from the coach stating kid is in a cast (hmmmmmm, guess dad's xray vision is broken) and did we receive a doctor note and kid said she can participate fully.

Called mom (dad in the background) ripped me a second new one for calling. Now, PE coach states mom already upset with her once this year. Dad yelling at me - it is common sense, we don't want her legs to atrophy!!!!

I wanted to yell back - you are exactly the kind of parents that is the reason we need notes to cover our ***** because without one as back up, you will be upset no matter what we do.

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On 2/8/2019 at 12:13 PM, pennyeary said:

Kid comes to my office this morning crying not feeling well..... Called Grandma she states oh I know she has fever I told the teacher that and I gave her meds. But she just insisted on coming to school. Im sorry but that is not how it works.

Yep, because we all know the kids are the one to call the shots, not the grown folk. SMH ?

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On 4/10/2019 at 1:03 PM, MrNurse(x2) said:

Had a mother and grandfather listed on contacts. Mom's number turned off, GFs was not working, email sent to mom and GF. No response all day. Got a strongly worded note the next day how I was supposed to call numbers we had no access to.:banghead:

I've had this SO many times. It is not our responsibility to ask parents on a regular basis if they have a new number. Parents are responsible for updating numbers. Drives me NUTS. My favorite is when a parent decides they are splitting up and bans the other parent from picking their kid up at school and says nothing to anyone and then pitches a fit when dad shows up (as he has every day all year) to pick the kid up and we let said kid go home with dad.

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On 4/12/2019 at 12:22 PM, Feral.Cat.Herder said:

Yep, because we all know the kids are the one to call the shots, not the grown folk. SMH ?

^^This right here is the problem with so many of my frequent flier and "defiant" students ^^

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Called parent to come get student with fever.

When dad arrived, he told me the reason she had a fever was because she had taken a hot shower in the morning....um sir, ya no thats not how it works...

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Little Susie is behind on her vaccines because "she had a tick on her head when she was a baby and it could've injected chemicals into her system so her doctor told me to wait". I bet.

Little Timmy has a 103 fever, is projectile vomiting, and sat-ing at 52 ... EMS has done a duoneb, inhalation epi, and an epi-injection, he's on L via n/c...we're sending him out...mom insists its because he didn't want to go to bed at bedtime last night,

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On 4/10/2019 at 2:38 PM, EnoughWithTheIce said:

I had a dad rip me a new one on Friday for calling on a suspected wrist fracture. He made a big show in my office of doing his assessment and announcing there was no fracture as he is an EMT. He had his kid in tears by the time they left.

Skip to today, I get an e-mail from the coach stating kid is in a cast (hmmmmmm, guess dad's xray vision is broken) and did we receive a doctor note and kid said she can participate fully.

Called mom (dad in the background) ripped me a second new one for calling. Now, PE coach states mom already upset with her once this year. Dad yelling at me - it is common sense, we don't want her legs to atrophy!!!!

I wanted to yell back - you are exactly the kind of parents that is the reason we need notes to cover our ***** because without one as back up, you will be upset no matter what we do.

LAWDAMERCY the medical parent...kid was actin a fool in PE, fell, superficial little scratch on his leg. Mom, who I believe is a medical biller, Dad who works in IT or something at a nursing home, and Stepdad who is an EMT bum rush my office...EMT is trying to flex and "assesses the knee for edema" and proudly proclaims that "this is all substernal"...well, sir, its a knee, soooo... this kid is a raging drama queen and the parents were no sooner out of the office door when Ii called them back in because the kid was insisting his "heart fell out and there is a bone coming out of my eyeball"...

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